Big Data/Artificial Intelligence

Blog & Updates

Mar 2026

Making a Difference in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Here, we share three Making a Difference (MAD) projects that examine how health systems, clinicians, researchers, and developers can responsibly navigate the growing use of AI in health settings and the complex ethical questions it raises, for example, about transparency, accountability, and trust.

Feb 2026

Navigating AI in Health Care: Guidance and Scholarship from the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Community

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving rapidly from promise to practice in health care—from its application in diagnostics to ambient scribing. While these tools offer potential benefits, they also pose risks and raise ethical questions about issues such as governance, transparency, and equity.

Jan 2026

Bioethics on the Air: 2025 Podcasts with the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Community

In 2025, members of the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program community continued to be at the forefront of conversations about ethics and health care, policy, and research, including a host of podcast appearances over the course of the year.

May 2025

Foundation Announces Greenwall Faculty Scholars Class of 2028

The Foundation’s flagship Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics helps build the next generation of leaders in bioethics by supporting early-career faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research, and by building an intellectually rich and active community.

Mar 2025

Bioethics Bookshelf: 5 Books from our Faculty Scholars Community to Add to Your Spring Break Reading List

As spring officially begins, many people will be searching for books to read on the porch during the first warm days of the season or during weekend getaways. With that in mind, we’re bringing back...

May 2024

Foundation Announces Greenwall Faculty Scholars Class of 2027

Mar 2024

From Ethical Inquiry to Legislative Impact: The Bioethics-to-Policy Pipeline

The journey from bioethics research to policy impact is multifaceted, with many paths that lead from academic effort to influence in the policy debate.

Dec 2022

Ruha Benjamin, PhD, and Meghna Chakrabarti Discuss Technology, Racial Bias, and More at the 2022 Stubing Lecture

On November 15, The Greenwall Foundation and NYU School of Global Public Health teamed up to host the 2022 William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture, Are Robots Racist? Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare. The Lecture featured Ruha Benjamin, PhD, Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University in conversation with WBUR’s Meghna Chakrabarti.

Oct 2022

Announcing the 2022 Stubing Memorial Lecture

As algorithms supplement human decision-making across a variety of sectors, questions of ethics and equity have come quickly to the forefront. In recent years, researchers found that pulse...

Jun 2022

Greenwall Co-sponsors Consensus Study to Develop Governance Framework for Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation

Rapid developments in emerging technologies raise exciting possibilities and important questions about ethics, access, and equity. With science racing ahead, it’s critical to ask even if we can do...

Mar 2021

Greenwall Faculty Scholars and Grantees Investigate the Ethics of Remote Monitoring

From assessing the performance of pacemakers to tracking a patient’s location and actions, modern technology is increasingly being used to monitor patient wellbeing. These remote monitoring devices...

Scholars

Doni Bloomfield, JD

Class of 2028 Fordham University School of Law

Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBe

Class of 2027 University of Michigan Medical School

Matthew McCoy, PhD

Class of 2025 University of Pennsylvania

Craig Konnoth, JD, MPhil

Class of 2024 University of Virginia

Nicholas G. Evans, PhD, MSME

Class of 2023 University of Massachusetts Lowell

Natalie Ram, JD

Class of 2021 University of Maryland Carey School of Law

Jeremy A. Greene, MD, PhD

Class of 2018 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Efthimios Parasidis, JD, MBE

Class of 2017 The Ohio State University

I. Glenn Cohen, JD

Class of 2015 Harvard Law School

Debra JH Mathews, MA, PhD

Class of 2014 Johns Hopkins University

Amy McGuire, JD, PhD

Class of 2009 Baylor College of Medicine

Jodi Lauren Halpern, MD, PhD

Class of 2008 University of California, Berkeley

Michelle Mello, JD, PhD, MPhil

Class of 2008 Stanford University

Leslie E. Wolf, JD, MPH

Class of 2006 Georgia State University College of Law

Grants

Guiding Principles for Human Data Sharing and Use: Balancing Public and Scientific Values

Debra Mathews, PhD Johns Hopkins University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2024

The Chatbot Is In: Ethics and Conversational AI in Health Care

Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2021

Developing Practical Recommendations for Precision AI-enabled Clinically Embedded Research (PACER)

Justin Starren, MD, PhD Northwestern University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2021

A Rubric for Algorithmic Fairness for Predictive Analytics in Healthcare

David M. Kent, MD, MSc Tufts Medical Center

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2020

Ethical and Policy Issues for University Data Sharing in the Age of Big Data

Michelle Mello JD, PhD Stanford University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2019

Ethical and Legal Challenges in the Use of Digital Phenotyping for Mental Health Applications

Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD Stanford University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2018

Explainability and Trade Secrecy in AI-Enabled Clinical Decision Software

Arti Rai, JD Duke Law School

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2018

Exploring Shared Decision-making as an Ethical Response to the Opioid Epidemic

Elizabeth Evans, PhD University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: spring 2018

Identifying Potential Barriers to and Enablers of Development of Ethical Machine Learning for Health Care

Mildred Cho, PhD Stanford University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2018

Understanding Key Stakeholder Attitudes Towards Novel Methods of Remotely Monitoring Medication Adherence after Transplantation

Harald Schmidt, MD, MA University of Pennsylvania

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2018

Autonomy in the Balance: Incorporating User Preferences for Ethical Decision-Making About Remote Monitoring Technologies in Elder Care

Clara Berridge, PhD Brown University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2015

Ethical, Legal, and Practical Solutions for Research Combining Electronic Medical Records and Genomic Sequence Data

Henry T. Greely, JD Stanford University

Grant Type: Making a Difference
Grant Cycle: fall 2013